Candidacy in elections in 2025
I’m a candidate in Jyväskylä and Central Finland in municipal and county elections in 2025. Permanent foreign residents have the right to vote.
Election numbers: in Jyväskylä 249 • in Central Finland 2019
We need politicians who have an optimistic vision of the future. We need to build new utopias instead of being stuck with every day problems.
I’m mainly interested in urban development and transport (15 minute city), children and youth services and free art and culture.
I have liberal positions and dream of an universal basic income. I’m candidate for the Greens and have in past been active in the pirate party.
Short biography
I’m Miika Hämynen, born in 1986, living in Jyväskylä, Finland.
I spent ten years of my childhood in Senegal, which had a profound effect on my views on the world. I find it easier to integrate into new cultures or adapt to new situations, and I never feel one problem can be solved in just one way.
I’m currently (9/2022 onwards) working as a senior consultant at Siili Solutions Oyj. My previous employer was the Finnish social security institution Kela (12/2012-9/2022).
I graduated from the University of Jyväskylä in 2012, having studied French, English and Information Technology. I analysed the translations of the Finnish video game Trine in my master’s thesis.
As a politician, I run with green and liberal values. The climate crisis needs to be stopped by making bad decisions more difficult and expensive to make. Biodiversity needs to be upheld and promoted. Humanity needs to find a balance with nature to succeed in the future. I want to build a society that is freer, cleaner and helps to create opportunities. I stand for our rights to privacy and question the patent and copyright systems.
I have ran in the Finnish parliamentary elections (in Central Finland) in 2015 (180 votes) and 2019 (73 votes). I have also participated in municipal elections in Jyväskylä in 2012 and 2017, receiving 68 votes at both occasions.
Contact information
If you are interested in contacting me, you can send me an e-mail (miika.hamynen [at] iki.fi).